The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts 1580-1630OUP Oxford, 2006 M02 23 - 344 pages Drawing on entirely new evidence, The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts 1580-1630 examines the history of English dramatic form and its relationship to the mathematics, technology, and early scientific thought during the Renaissance period. The book demonstrates how practical modes of thinking that were typical of the sixteenth century resulted in new genres of plays and a new vocabulary for problems of poetic representation. In the epistemological moment the book recovers, we find new ideas about form and language that would become central to Renaissance literary discourse; in this same moment, too, we find new ways of thinking about the relationship between theory and practice that are typical of modernity, new attitudes towards spatial representation, and a new interest in both poetics and mathematics as distinctive ways of producing knowledge about the world. By emphasizing the importance of theatrical performance, the book engages with continuing debates over the cultural function of the early modern stage and with scholarship on the status of modern authorship. When we consider playwrights in relation to the theatre rather than the printed book, they appear less as 'authors' than as figures whose social position and epistemological presuppositions were very similar to the craftsmen, surveyors, and engineers who began to flourish during the sixteenth century and whose mathematical knowledge made them increasingly sought after by men of wealth and power. |
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... writing. But this influence is also visible in the work of other writers on poetics more generally, such as Philip Sidney and George Puttenham; despite that fact that they were not professional playwrights, I have devoted particular ...
... writing. But this influence is also visible in the work of other writers on poetics more generally, such as Philip Sidney and George Puttenham; despite that fact that they were not professional playwrights, I have devoted particular ...
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... writing a book remained happy and satisfying; many colleagues have offered professional support and words of advice. On both counts, I owe particular thanks to Gina Bloom, James J. Bono, Amanda Claybaugh, Lisa Cooper, Mary Thomas Crane ...
... writing a book remained happy and satisfying; many colleagues have offered professional support and words of advice. On both counts, I owe particular thanks to Gina Bloom, James J. Bono, Amanda Claybaugh, Lisa Cooper, Mary Thomas Crane ...
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... writers struggled to reconcile with their neo-classical prescriptions for drama as a distinct mode of poetic art.1 Once this reconceptualization of the object of inquiry has 1 For the modern critic, of course, nearly all the surviving ...
... writers struggled to reconcile with their neo-classical prescriptions for drama as a distinct mode of poetic art.1 Once this reconceptualization of the object of inquiry has 1 For the modern critic, of course, nearly all the surviving ...
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... writers. In the 'Prologue' that he wrote for Old Fortunatus' public performance at the Rose sometime in December 1599 or early in 1600, Dekker seems to have in mind the claims for 'heroic' poetry that (among English writers) first ...
... writers. In the 'Prologue' that he wrote for Old Fortunatus' public performance at the Rose sometime in December 1599 or early in 1600, Dekker seems to have in mind the claims for 'heroic' poetry that (among English writers) first ...
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